Dec 2024 - Present

Senior Frontend at Quindar

At Quindar, I help build the software that operators use to fly and look after things in orbit.

At Quindar, I

  • Shape complex, data-heavy user interfaces into something clear and usable for the people running missions
  • Craft and refine the web experiences used for various workflows such as Operations, Mission Planning and Flight Dynamics
  • Collaborate across teams to ship features that make managing things in space a little simpler

May 2024 - Nov 2024

Frontend at BrewLogix

At BrewLogix, I helped build the next destination for restaurants and craft breweries to sell their products and promote their venues to consumers everywhere.

At BrewLogix, I

  • Scaled the UI for multiple products in the BLX ecosystem with Next.js, GraphQL, TailwindCSS and Vercel
  • Enhanced our primary Search Keg UX, reducing the average time spent in the Add/Edit Keg pages by 49%. This streamlined a core experience for users managing their constantly evolving inventories
  • Led migration away from Webpack to Turbopack, reducing build times by over 50%, hot reload times from 20 seconds to less than a second & speeding up our deployments while drastically improving local DX team wide
  • Refactored and improved our legacy table components to TanStack Tables, reducing rendering overhead and established reusable table architecture across BLX platform

Nov 2023 - May 2024

Contract Developer at Ulta Beauty

At Ulta, I crafted the digital experience for one of the largest beauty sellers in the world. I collaborated with multiple teams to deliver data-driven and personalized experiences through A/B experimentation.

At Ulta, I

  • Shipped numerous A/B experiments on Ulta's main website using HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ampliance CMS and AB Tasty improving the shopping experience for millions of users, particularly during the busy Black Friday shopping season
  • Experimented with novel features and assisting in the hand off of winning experiments to the core developer team for further integration into the codebase
  • Worked with the Personalization Team to develop custom experiences and dynamic content based off previous shopping data, implementing improved experiences for return shoppers as well as those with rewards accounts

Jan 2020 - May 2023

Software Engineer at Cozi

At Cozi, I worked on one of the most popular family organization tools on the App Store and Web. I helped maintain and improve the client side of Cozi, building an accessible and cross platform experience for users.

At Cozi, I

  • Designed a custom A/B testing tool with React and Mixpanel saving the company a projected $100,000 annually while allowing our Growth team to conduct custom experiments on segments of users
  • Modernized core features of Cozi's web app (Home and Recipes pages) significantly improving UI/UX using React, Redux and styled-components
  • Advocated for WCAG 2.1 using Deque's axe plugin and formatter ensuring accessibility requirements such as keyboard and screen reader functionality were met
  • Drove team-wide adoption of an E2E testing suite with Cypress.io and GitHub Actions, leading to an improved developer workflow with CI, while saving hundreds of extra hours in manual QA time
  • Collaborated cross-team to build an amazing product for families to sync what's important to them

Nov 2019 - Jan 2020

Contract Developer at Pallet

At Pallet, I helped build the next marketplace for construction. As a full stack developer, I leveraged React, GraphQL, and AWS Amplify to build out requested features in a fast-paced, startup setting with a small team of other engineers.

At Pallet, I

  • Continually scaling the UI of Pallet with React- more specifically: Hooks, Apollo-GraphQL, and Bootstrap
  • Developing robust GraphQL APIs with AWS Amplify, specifically using AWS Appsync and DynamoDB
  • Testing new features before deployments with Jest
  • Assisting fellow engineers understanding new web technologies and smashing bugs

May 2018 - Aug 2018

Intern Software Engineer at FullStack Labs

At FullStack Labs, I interned as a Software Engineer — helping develop all kinds of different Web and Mobile applications with React and React Native. I had the opportunity to dip my hands in many different roles including QA, Front End, and Back End development. This experience gave me a solid foundation, and allowed me to begin my work as a professional SWE after college.

At FullStack Labs, I

  • Building out and implementing requested User Stories/bugfixes using React
  • Learning how to use Agile/Scrum methodologies along with a team of other engineers, prioritizing certain features/bugfixes per request by the Clients of the project
  • Testing physical and network edge cases with Browserstack, Chrome Dev Tools and Postman, reporting hard-to-find bugs that developers would have otherwise missed

Projects

My Solar Cost

Demo Link

Draw tool to estimate cost of solar panel installation for homeowners. Leveraging React, Google Maps API and Chart.js to build a simple and responsive UI. Orchestrating deployments with AWS CDK and CodePipeline into S3.

Take Home Challenge: Color App

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Fullstack app that randomly displays and paginates random colors using React, GraphQL, and Hooks

Education

B.S Computer Science

Class of 2019 at California State University, Sacramento

csus.edu

Notable Skills

Typescript

Javascript

React

GraphQL

Redux

CSS

HTML

A/B Testing

GitHub Actions

AWS Services including Lambda, S3, CDK & CodePipeline

Heroku

Cypress.io

Tailwind

Chakra UI

Material-UI